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Updated: June 22, 2025
Oroonoko or The Royal Slave, with its celebration of the virtues of a noble negro and his love for his Imoinda, and his brutal ill-treatment and death by torture at the hands of white murderers, undoubtedly took the fancy of the public. But to see at once Rousseau and Byron in it, Chateaubriand and Wilberforce and I know not what else, is rather in the "lunatic, lover, and poet" order of vision.
It is a paradise. There is a longing and eager craving to return to the life. The vulgar cowboys and hunters, uneducated and unpoetical past all degree, never leave it except to get drunk. We cannot be quite sure, when we listen to some recent critics, that Chateaubriand ever saw this great valley.
Chateaubriand saw Washington only once, but it inspired him for life. After describing the interview, he says: "Washington sank into the tomb before any little celebrity had attached to my name. I passed before him as the most unknown of beings. He was in all his glory I in the depth of my obscurity. My name probably dwelt not a whole day in his memory.
You may have heard, at our club, or elsewhere, how I adore her genius how, I say, that nothing so Breton that is, so pure and so lofty has appeared and won readers since the days of Chateaubriand, and you, knowing that les absents ont toujours tort, come to me and ask Monsieur de Rochebriant, Are we rivals? I expected a challenge you relieve my mind you abandon the field to me?"
Then I asked if it was true that the members of the community, when they passed one another in their ordinary occupations, were allowed to break the rule of silence only to say, 'Remember death! 'No, replied the monk, 'it is a legend that originated with Chateaubriand. We reached the chapter-house, a plain room with benches along the walls and a case containing a small collection of books.
Scarcely had he concluded these bold, proud words, when a delegation presented itself from the Chamber of Deputies, soliciting the co-operation of the peers in placing the crown upon the brow of the Duke of Orleans. It was soon manifest that but few of the peers were prepared to surrender themselves to martyrdom by following the courageous but desperate councils of Chateaubriand.
Such were the principal circumstances attending the nomination of Chateaubriand to the Institute. I shall not relate some others which occurred on a previous occasion, viz. on the election of an old and worthy visitor at Malmaison, M. Lemercier, and which will serve to show one of those strange inconsistencies so frequent in the character of Napoleon.
When he reached his rooms in the Rue Chateaubriand, Lupin, after washing the blood from his face, sat for over an hour in a chair, as though overwhelmed. For the first time in his life he was experiencing the pain of treachery. For the first time his comrades in the fight were turning against their chief.
Difficulty between Napoleon and Madame Récamier. Banishment of Madame de Staël. Cause of Madame Récamier's banishment. She returns to Paris. Hortense exiled. Interview at the Coliseum. Subsequent meetings. Letter from Hortense. Disgrace of Chateaubriand. Revolution in France. Attempt of the Italian patriots. Escape of Louis Napoleon. They seek refuge in France. The vicissitudes of life.
Chateaubriand hated the whole Orleans dynasty, and has not spared the elder Bourbons. GUIZOT has been for thirty years in political life, many of them a minister, and was long at the head of the government of Louis Philippe, but is now a poor man.
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